Abstract
Powder of Fe72Nb4Si10B14 (%at) glassy alloy was obtained by gas atomization in order to investigate the possibilities of amorphous phase formation due to the high cooling rates (103 105 K/s) involved in this process. The ratio between the gas volumetric and the metal mass flow rates used was 1.0, and nitrogen (N2) was used as the atomization gas. The powder, sieved in different granulometric size ranges, was characterized through: X-ray diffratometry (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Fe72Nb4Si10B14 (%at) bulk metallic glass (BMG) showed completely or partially glassy structure depending on the size range. The obtaining of powders with glassy structure that could be applied as shot penning powder particles and thermal spray feeding powder for metallic coatings or would make possible the production of bulk glassy materials by warm consolidation of such powders or even a millimeters thick deposit obtained by spray forming with glassy or metastable microstructure that would be very interesting considering applications as soft ferromagnetic parts.
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